RED TEAM: WORLD METAL TOUR // GERMANY #1

In the fictional World Metal Tour diary, the idea does not begin at an airport. It begins at home: among equipment, open screens, bottles, broken sleep, and the feeling that RQS had reached a point where it could no longer exist only inside the studio.

Nyx wanted to turn Red Team energy into movement: take the project beyond its room, test the music in other cities, and build a route that connected shows, visuals, characters, and new recordings. Jonah shared the ambition, but he first saw what it would demand. JJ was still very young. Every move would have to account for rest, food, documents, luggage, and family support.

The argument was not only about choosing countries. It was about deciding what kind of project RQS could be once real life entered the plan. Nyx defended a wide route through different territories and cultural references. Jonah reminded her that a list of destinations was not a tour: they needed to know where to stay, how to travel, what equipment to carry, and who would hold the routine together when both of them were depleted.

Their screens suggested that the music was already travelling beyond RQS’s immediate circle, but those signals were a starting point, not a promise. The first map included possibilities in Europe, North Africa, Asia, and the Americas. It was still a draft — and drafts change when they meet weather, borders, cost, family, and reality.

Berlin became the first concrete stop. Not because it was easy, but because it made sense for the sound RQS had been shaping: industrial metal, urban tension, machines, noise, and a spectacle built from limitations.

The first World Metal Tour phase was not about pretending that everything had been solved. It was about accepting that the route would have to be earned one stage at a time. For Nyx, that meant refusing to abandon ambition. For Jonah, it meant refusing to abandon JJ, their family, and his own ability to keep creating.

The tour began that way: without certainty, shortcuts, or a final map. Just a band, a small child, two clashing visions, and the decision to make Berlin the first test.